Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Script, performance and stagecraft -- and the greatest of these is usually script, right? Except that it's often performance. And then along comes a case where the first among equals is stagecraft. Such is the world premiere of Andrea Stolowitz's "Antarktikos," where the physical production is so evocative that you might turn off the words and still intuit the emotional trajectory.
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This play sounds fascinating! When I started reading about entering a new world in one's mind, in this case Antarctica, and I too was reminded of Angels in America. Perhaps many use Antarctica as an escape from reality / parallel universe is because very few have been there. Many dream and wonder in a romantic way about what polar expeditions are like. But perhaps it is also the temperature and color of what one would think of Antarctica. The cold air feels refreshing, new, and makes the viewer feel awake and more aware. The color blue also gives that new, cold refreshing feeling. When people want to escape reality and enter a fresh new world in their mind, do they automatically enter a cold world of white? Is that world bare? Is this a universal thought, and we can only think of one realistic place that fits this description? I love how the play examines self-examination. I think the world needs more of it.
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